Trevor Darrell
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Trevor Darrell
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = MIT
| fields = Computer Science
| doctoral_advisor = Alex Pentland
| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley
| website = https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/
}}
Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web|url=https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/|title=Faculty homepage|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.guide2research.com/scientists/uni-19|title=Top H-Index For Scientists in University of California, Berkeley|website=www.guide2research.com|access-date=2019-04-13}} He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bh-uRFMAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Trevor Darrell - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-04-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://dblp.org/pers/hd/d/Darrell:Trevor|title=DBLP: Trevor Darrell|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learning{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kmqt1|title=BBC World Service - The Forum, Deep Learning|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-13}} and explainable AI.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/magazine/can-ai-be-taught-to-explain-itself.html|title=Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?|last=Kuang|first=Cliff|date=2017-11-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library.{{Cite book|last1=Jia|first1=Yangqing|last2=Shelhamer|first2=Evan|last3=Donahue|first3=Jeff|last4=Karayev|first4=Sergey|last5=Long|first5=Jonathan|last6=Girshick|first6=Ross|last7=Guadarrama|first7=Sergio|last8=Darrell|first8=Trevor|title=Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia |chapter=Caffe |date=2014|series=MM '14|location=New York, NY, USA|publisher=ACM|pages=675–678|doi=10.1145/2647868.2654889|isbn=9781450330633|arxiv=1408.5093|s2cid=1799558}}
Education
- 1996, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under Alex Pentland
- 1991, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology{{cite web |title=Trevor Darrell |url=https://identity.media.mit.edu/darrell.html |website=ID/entity |access-date=20 August 2022}}
- 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 1984, Phillips Academy{{cite journal |title=Deaths |journal=Andover Bulletin |date=1993 |volume=86 |issue=3 |page=19 |url=https://archive.org/stream/andoverbulletin8688phil/andoverbulletin8688phil_djvu.txt |access-date=20 August 2022}}{{cite book |title=Phillips Academy 2013–2014 Report of Giving and Honor Roll of Donors |date=2014 |page=22 |url=https://issuu.com/phillipsacademy/docs/reportofgiving2014 |access-date=20 August 2022}}
Career
When Darrell finished his PhD in 1996, he joined the Interval Research Corporation. In 1999, he left the corporation for the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he left MIT for the University of California, Berkeley,{{cite journal |title=Featured Research: Computer Vision |journal=The ICSI Gazette |date=2009 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1, 4–5 |url=http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/sites/default/files/gazette/ICSIGazettev7n2.pdf |access-date=20 August 2022}} where he is now a Professor in the CS Division.{{cite web |title=Trevor Darrell |url=https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/darrell.html |website=EECS at UC Berkeley |access-date=20 August 2022}} Darrell co-founded the BAIR laboratory at UC Berkeley.
His former students include Kristen Grauman, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kate Saenko, Yangqing Jia, Tete Xiao, and Raquel Urtasun (postdoc).{{cite web |title=Trevor Jackson Darrell |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=145220&fChrono=1 |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=20 August 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Urtasun |first1=Raquel |title=Raquel Urtasun |url=https://people.csail.mit.edu/rurtasun/cv/urtasun_cv.pdf |website=Raquel Urtasun |access-date=20 August 2022}}
Family
Darrell was born in New York City in 1996. Darrell's parents were Richard and Constance Darrell.{{cite news |title=Richard Darrell becomes Fiance of Miss Jackson-physician-and-alumna.html|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/richard-darrell-becomes-fiance-of-miss-jackson-physician-and-alumna.html}} Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell.{{cite book |title=Benjamin Lightbourne/Lightburn of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and His Descendants |date=2019 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1532062483 |edition=Second |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aL6SDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1932}}{{cite news |title=In Memoriam |url=https://issuu.com/millbrookschool/docs/millbrook_spring2018magazine_final |work=Millbrook: A Magazine for Alumni, Parents and Friends of Millbrook School |publisher=Millbrook School |date=Spring 2018}}
Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom, whose father was the Swedish and Stanford academic Stig Hagstrom.
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